Report ‘Working for Everyone’ from ILC-UK and renEWL published

5 December 2017

Based on research conducted by the ESRC and MRC funded Research on Extending Working Lives (renEWL)
consortium, the International Longevity Centre-UK (ILC-UK) has published a
report discussing key findings and their policy implications. The report
highlights socio-economic inequalities in working beyond the age of 50 and the impact that mental health and physical
health, working conditions, informal caring responsibilities, and family
structure, have on retirement transitions and workforce participation in later
life.

The renEWL research uses secondary data from
several UK and European longitudinal studies to investigate childhood and
adulthood determinants of extending working lives beyond the age of 50. The consortium, led by Professor Jenny Head
and Dr Mai Stafford, includes researchers from the UCL Department of
Epidemiology and Public Health, the MRC
Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, and the Wolfson Institute of
Preventive Medicine at Queen Mary
University of London, as well as several European collaborators.

EPH News

Leonard Cheshire and the
Department for International Development (DFID) has launched a disability data portal at the Global Disability Summit on 24th July 2018.
The Leonard Cheshire Disability portal will tackle gaps in data and provide
detailed and high-quality information related to a range of
specific disabilities. For the first-time, disaggregated data from multiple and
diverse sources across 16 development indicators in 40 countries will be pooled
together in one resource and cross-country comparisons can be made. Data around
key development themes including inclusive education, economic empowerment,
technology/innovation and stigma/discrimination is now available. The portal
will help the global community to identify and understand the lives of people
with disabilities around the world and specific measures and strategies can
therefore be implemented accordingly. https://www.disabilitydataportal.com/

The Leonard Cheshire Research Centre is excited to be part of the £10m research
grant awarded to the Global Disability Innovation (GDI) Hub at UCL from the Department
for International Development (DfiD). This grant aims to widen access to assistive
technology for disabled people; the funding will support the AT:2030–Life Changing
Assistive Technology for All and will support six distinct projects. For
example, the funding will help to create an Innovation Hub in east Africa led
by the Government
of Kenya and the University of Nairobi, to test and trial new ideas. The AT:2030
project aims to achieve at least 10 disruptive technologies with potential for life-changing
impact, six innovative service delivery models and to reach at least 3 million
people by the end of the project.

Supporting parents to develop effective parenting practices is an
important strategy to tackle inequalities in childhood but major gaps remain in
the evidence base for universal parenting programmes, especially for older
children and families from disadvantaged and diverse ethnic backgrounds.

Professor Richard Watt in
collaboration with the Race Equality Foundation and researchers from UCL,
Imperial, Cambridge, Bristol and Middlesex universities has recently secured
£1.5m funding from the NIHR Public Health Programme to undertake a 4-year
multi-centre waiting list control RCT to evaluate Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities,
a group based parenting intervention for families from ethnic and socially
disadvantaged backgrounds.

Professor Mika Kivimaki is
one of 48 new Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences for 2018, who have been
elected for their outstanding
contributions to biomedical and health science, leading research discoveries,
and translating developments into benefits for patients and the wider society.